Search Engine Websites
 

Search engine websites are one of the basic kinds of web site that everyone tends to use all the time. By typing a string of text into a search engine box, you can quickly receive links to many web sites that deal with the topic you are interested in. Here are some thoughts and ideas on search engine websites and how to find out more about them on the world wide web!

Most search engine websites are not just used for simple text web searches these days; they also operate as 'portal' sites with lots of unique content and links to media, news and entertainment. Sites like Yahoo are designed to function as your home page, with many of the same features that home oriented internet services had on their boot-up pages during the nineties. The most popular search engine websites are the Yahoo search engine, Google search engine and MSN search engine. Google is one of the most popular search engine websites because of its high quality of results and streamlined design. The Google page is all search, no frills, although there are links to a highly customizable and useful Google News Site, as well as many other Google services on the front page. Since the Google page loads very quickly and responds very quickly, it is one of the mainstays of the search engine world.

The Yahoo search engine is just part of an online media portal that looks very similar to the start up screens from old ISPs. It gives you a quick glimpse of recent entertainment and news headlines and has links on the front page to take you to resources on all kinds of topics. Yahoo started as more of a directory than a search engine, and their focus has been more on using people to determine quality content than using sophisticated web crawlers and algorithms. As a result, however, many of their directory listings tend to get out of date. Yahoo is a very popular portal site, however.

MSN search is popular mostly because of the Microsoft products that make it a default page. However, it generally ranks a third behind Google and Yahoo. MSN is another portal site, although it tends to focus more on the news than entertainment. Its search results are considered to be somewhat lower in quality than Google and Yahoo. Finally, there are other search engines such as the Lycos search engine that give fairly good results but have become less popular over the years. To find more search engine info on the world wide web try searching for phrases such as 'search engine list yahoo Lycos'. Good luck learning about great search engines on the internet!